Henry James Today

Program Schedule

The American University of Paris

31 avenue Bosquet, 75007 Paris (for Friday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday sessions)

6 rue du Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris (for Saturday sessions)

Friday July 5

8:30 AM: registration starts, lobby, 31 avenue Bosquet

9-10:15: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

James's Short Stories I (3 20-minute papers)

Adrian Poole (Cambridge University), chair

-- Dennis Pahl (Long Island University), "Ethical Dimensions in James's Art of Criticism; or,

Engaging the Other in 'The Figure in the Carpet'"

-- Nelly Valtat-Comet (Université de Tours), "The Figure of the Artist in the Tales of Henry

James"

-- Leonardo Buonomo (Università di Trieste), "A Woman's Face: Evaluating Beauty in

'Glasses'"

10:30-11:45: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

James and French writers I (3 20-minute papers)

Annick Duperray (Université de Provence), chair

-- David Gervais (University of Reading), “The Master’s Lesson: James and Balzac”

-- Susan Gunter (Westminster College and Sofia Univeristy), “The American and ‘Le Roman

policier”

-- Dennis Tredy (Université de Provence), "Clearing the Stage, Filtering the Pictures: Henry

James in the 1890's"

12-1:15: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

Political James (3 20-minute papers)

Maria DiBattista (Princeton University), chair

-- Christopher J. Stuart (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), "'Bloom[ing] on a Dog's

Allowance': Hyacinth Robinson and the Redemption of the Working Class in Henry

James's The Princess Casamassima"

-- Rory Drummond (Christ's Hospital), "The 'Extinguished Presence' of Domestic Staff in

James's Late-Victorian Fiction"

-- John Carlos Rowe (University of California, Irvine), "Henry James and French Cultural

Politics"

1:15-2:45: Lunch

2:45-4:20: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

James and (Post-)Modernity (4 20-minute papers)

Sergio Perosa (Università di Venezia), chair

-- Maria DiBattista (Princeton University), "James in Bohemia"

-- Phyllis van Slyck (LaGuardia Community College), "From Lost Letters to Lurking Beasts:

Reflections on the Lost 'Self' in Henry James"

-- George Smith (Maine College of Art), "Henry James and the Representation of Postmodern

Consciousness"

-- David McWhirter (Texas A & M University), "Henry James, Modernist?"

4:30-6:05: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

The Ambassadors (4 20-minute papers)

Lee Mitchell (Princeton University), chair

-- Hazel Hutchison (University of Aberdeen), "James's Spectacles: Distorted Vision in The

Ambassadors"

-- Michiel Heyns (University of Stellenbosch), "The Quantity of Make-Believe Involved:

Henry James, Morton Fullerton, and Chad Newsome"

-- Julie Rivkin (Connecticut College), "'She Won't Do Anything Worse to You than Make You

Like Her': Desire, Identification, and the Light of Paris in The Ambassadors"

-- Tessa Jane Hadley (Bath Spa University College), "French Words in The Ambassadors"

6:15-7:25: First keynote address, Bosquet, Grand Salon:

Hubert Teyssandier (Université de Paris III), "The Presence of Paris in The Ambassadors"

7: 30-8:30: Bosquet, Grand Salon: Reception

Saturday July 6

9:10-10:25: Concurrent sessions, 6 rue du Colonel Combes

room C31: Henry James and French writers II (3 20-minute papers)

Susan Gunter (Westminster College and Sofia University), chair

-- Arun Kumar (Chaudhary Charan Singh University), "Henry James and Paul Bourget:

Interactions on the Art of the Novel"

-- Jean Chothia (Cambridge University), "A Lively Process of Action and Reaction: Henry

James and French Theatre"

-- Joan G. Schroeter (Newberry Library), "Henry James and Alexis de Tocqueville on the

Meaning of Honor"

room C13: James's Short Stories II (3 20-minute papers)

Nelly Valtat-Comet (Université de Tours), chair

-- John Holland (American University of Paris), "The Passion of Curiosity"

-- Michael Reid (Stanford University), "James and the Literary Heritage Industry"

--Elaine Pigeon (Université de Montréal), "A Queer Impression: Stereoscopic Vision in

James's 'A New England Winter'"

10:35-12:10: Concurrent sessions, 6 rue du Colonel Combes

room C31: Material James (4 20-minute papers)

Martha Banta (University of California, Los Angeles), chair

-- Kendall Johnson (Swarthmore College), "Rules of Engagement: Exhibiting Science in The

American"

-- Agnes Zsófia Kovács (University of Szeged), "Imagination in What Maisie Knew"

-- Sharon B. Oster (University of California, Los Angeles), "Mr. Newman Goes to Paris: The

Production of Value in James's The American"

-- Victoria Coulson (Cambridge University), "Sticky Realism: Henry James and Edith

Wharton"

room C13: Rhetorical Approaches to The Wings of the Dove (4 20-minute papers)

Rosella Mamoli Zorzi (Università di Venezia), chair

-- Andrew Cutting (University of North London), "Milly's Letter: Publication, Remembrance

and Oblivion in The Wings of the Dove"

-- Victoria Romanenkova (Ufa State Petroleum Technical University), "Metaphor in The

Wings of the Dove by Henry James"

-- Victoria Hammerling Rosenberg (Halifax, NS), “The Sheltering Wings of the Narrative in The Wings of the Dove”

-- B. Ayça Ulker Erkan (Ege University), "The Art of Fiction in Henry James's Novel The Wings of the Dove”

12:10-1:35: Lunch

1:35-2:50: Concurrent sessions, 6 rue du Colonel Combes

room C31: Paris as a motif in James's work (3 20-minute papers)

David Gervais (University of Reading), chair

-- Joshua Parker (Université de Paris VII), "Henry James's Symbolic Paris"

-- Stuart Robertson (University of Glasgow), "James, Flaubert and the Parisian Flâneur as

Revolutionary Artist: L'Education sentimentale and The Princess Casamassima"

-- Erika Dreifus (Harvard University), "James's 'Surrounding Scene': Paris in The

Ambassadors"

room C13: Working with James's Letters (3 20-minute papers)

Chang Young-hee (Sogang University), chair

-- Susan Halpert (Harvard University), "The Real Thing"

-- Pierre A. Walker (Salem State College), "Reading James's Manuscript Letters"

-- Greg W. Zacharias (Creighton University), "The Significance of Informational Notes for The

Complete Letters of Henry James"

3:00-4:15: Concurrent sessions, 6 rue du Colonel Combes

room C31: Henry James and French writers III (3 20-minute papers)

Julie Rivkin (Connecticut College), chair

-- Jessica Levine (Berkeley, Calif.), "'Madame de Mauves' as James's La Princesse de Clèves"

-- Donata Meneghelli (Università di Bologna), "James's 'Deconstruction' of the Comédie

humaine:

From the Great Edifice to The House of Fiction"

-- Angus Wrenn (London School of Economics), "Edmond About and The Wings of the Dove"

room C13: Social and ethical approaches to The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl (3 20-minute papers)

Greg W. Zacharias (Creighton University), chair

-- Sigi Jöttkandt (State University of New York, Buffalo), “Hysteria, Metaphor and the Ethics of Desire in

The Wings of the Dove”

-- Yasuko Tanimoto (Shinshu University), "Who is Merton Densher?--The Male Protagonist of

The Wings of the Dove"

-- Gro Frølund (University of Sydney), "Seven Golden Bowls Full of the Wrath of God"

4:25-5:55: Concurrent sessions, 6 rue du Colonel Combes

room C31: Dramatizing Henry James (4 18-minute papers)

Sophie Geoffroy-Menoux (Université de la Réunion), chair

-- Madeleine Danova (Sofia University), "Henry James, Movies and Popular Culture"

-- Michael Halliwell (Sydney University Conservatorium of Music), "The Masque of Janus:

Douglas Moore's Operatic Version of The Wings of the Dove"

-- Maria Antonia Alvarez (Distance Teaching University, Madrid), "The Breach Between

Henry James's Novels and Films"

-- Mark A. Eaton (Azusa Pacific University), "Miramax, Merchant-Ivory, and the New Nobrow

Culture: Niche Marketing The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl"

room C13: Henry James Studies outside the West (4 18-minute papers)

John Carlos Rowe (University of California, Irvine), chair

-- Dai Xian-mei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), "From Rejection to

Appreciation: Henry James's Criticism in China"

-- Reet Sool (University of Tartu), "The Portrait of Henry James in Estonia(n)"

-- Hitomi Nabae (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies): "Translation as Criticism: A

Century of James Appreciation in Japan"

-- Kim Choon-hee (Ewha Womans University), "On the Status of Scholarly Study of H. James

between 1996-2001 in Korea"

Sunday July 7

10:30: Meet Noel Riley Fitch, outside the opera metro stop on the Right Bank; she will lead a tour of James's Paris, terminating at Abbey Books, Paris's Canadian bookstore, in the heart of the Latin Quarter, where there will be a pre-lunch reception. Cost: 20 euros, per person, to be paid directly to Ms. Fitch. Come with several Metro tickets or a one-day Metro-bus pass (called Mobilis).

4:30-5:50: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

Round-table on teaching James:

Kimberly Reed (Lipscomb University), chair and introduction

-- Gert Buelens (University of Ghent), "Teaching 'Daisy Miller' Innocently"

-- Richard Menke (University of Georgia), "'Framed and Wired': Teaching 'In the Cage' at the

Intersection of Literature and Media"

-- Diane Long Hoeveler (Marquette University), "Teaching 'The Turn of the Screw'

Metatextually"

-- Dawn Keetley (Lehigh University), "Mothers and Others: 'The Turn of the Screw' and

Anxieties over Substitute Mothers"

-- Sheila Teahan (Michigan State University), "Teaching 'The Turn of the Screw' as/and

Literary Theory"

-- Peter G. Beidler (Lehigh University), "The Governess as Teacher in 'The Turn of the Screw'"

6-7: Second keynote address, 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

Martha Banta (University of California, Los Angeles), "Too Real: Reading, Teaching, Living in the James World"

Monday July 8

9-10:15: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

Revisions, Titles, and Style (3 20-minute papers)

Martha Banta (University of California, Los Angeles), chair

-- Arnold Leitner (Universidade de Coimbra), "'The Triumph of Intentions Never

Entertained': Gestational Ambiguities and Attempts at Correction in Henry James's Tales"

-- Jeremy Tambling (University of Hong Kong), "James and Entitlement"

-- Mary Ann O'Farrell (Texas A & M University), "As Who Should Say: Braveries of James's

Style"

10:30-11:45: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

James and National identity (3 20-minute papers)

Philip Horne (University College, London), chair

-- Ivy Glenn Wilson (Yale University), "Abroad at Home: James, Nationalism, and the

Boundaries of Cosmopolitanism"

-- Pamela Matthews (Texas A & M University), "Joan of Arc in Boston: James's Bostonians,

Futurity, and the National Subject"

-- Marysa Demoor (University of Ghent), "'The Flesh-Tints of Rubens': Henry James's

Contribution to the Construction of Englishness"

12:00-1:15: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

James's Short Stories III: New Readings of "The Turn of the Screw" and "The Pupil" (3 20-minute papers)

Priscilla L. Walton (Carleton University), chair

-- Jean Perrot (Université de Paris XIII), "Who Are You, Mrs. Grose?"

-- Ellis Hanson (Cornell University), "Screwing with Children"

-- Robert K. Martin (Université de Montréal), "The Death of the Sissy: James's Pederastic

Fictions?"

1:15-2:45: Lunch

2:45-3:35: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

` The Deconstruction of Reality in The Princess Casamassima and The Tragic Muse (2 20-minute papers)

Sheila Teahan (Michigan State University), chair

-- Anne-Claire Le Reste (Université de Rennes), "The Princess Casamassima: Giving No

Hostages to Reality"

-- Karen Scherzinger (University of South Africa), "Representing 'Truly' in The Tragic Muse"

3:45-4:35: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

The Return to the Rhetorical (2 20-minute papers)

David McWhirter (Texas A & M University), chair

-- Gert Buelens (University of Ghent), "Metaphor, Metonymy, and Ethics in The Portrait of a

Lady"

-- Lee Mitchell (Princeton University), "'Begun to Show for Conscious Things': Objects,

Setting and the Construction of Character in Henry James"

4:45-6:20: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

James's sense of the past (4 20-minute papers)

Susan M. Griffin (University of Louisville), chair

-- Peter Rawlings (University of the West of England), "What Maisie Knew and The Wings of

the Dove: The Vital Importance of Being Ignorant"

-- Philip Horne (University College, London), "Henry James's Impossible Sense of the Past"

-- Mark Goble (Stanford University), "Delirious Henry James"

-- Eric Haralson (State University of New York, Stony Brook), "'We are not in France':

Bohemians and Other Foreign Bodies in the Post-Puritan Imagination à la James"

6:30-7:45: Third keynote address, 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

Adrian Poole (Cambridge University), "Nanda's Smile: Teaching James and the Sense of Humor"

8:30-?: conference banquet, Thoumieux, 79 rue Saint-Dominique

Tuesday July 9

9-10:15: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

James and Gender (3 20-minute papers)

Donatella Izzo (Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli), chair

-- Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh (Università di Macerata), "'How a Man Should Meet Trouble':

James's Mediterranean Men and the Struggle for Self-Possession"

-- Leland S. Person (University of Cincinnati), "Making Men in Paris: The American and The

Ambassadors"

-- Kristin Olson Lauer (Fordham University), "Behind Enemy Lines: Jacobite Among the

Feminists"

10:30-11:45: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

Biographical Musings (3 20-minute papers)

Jean Perrot (Université de Paris XIII), chair

-- Linda Simon (Skidmore College), "The Empowered Physician: William Wilberforce Baldwin

and 19th Century Medical Therapeutics"

-- Priscilla L. Walton (Carleton University), "Theoretical Biography? Analysing Alternative

Henry Jameses"

-- Sheila Teahan (Michigan State University), "Specters of the Self in A Small Boy and

Others"

12-1:15: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

Venice as a Motif in The Wings of the Dove (3 20-minute papers)

Hubert Teyssandier (Université de Paris III), chair

-- Marie-Odile Salati (Université de Savoie), "The Baroque Setting as Aesthetic Counterpoint

to the Theme of Insecure Identity in The Wings of the Dove"

-- Michael R. Martin (University of Texas, Austin), "Love and Labor in Venice: The Forgotten

Materialism of The Wings of the Dove"

-- Sergio Perosa (Università di Venezia), "The Wings of the Dove and the Coldness of Venice"

1:15-2:45: Lunch

2:45-4:20: 31 avenue Bosquet, Grand Salon:

James and the Visual Arts (4 20-minute papers)

George Smith (Maine College of Art), chair

-- Rosella Mamoli Zorzi (Università di Venezia), "Paolo Veronese in James's Central Park"

-- Anna De Biasio (Università di Venezia), "The Copies Outstrip the 'Originals': Artistic istic

Representations from The Marble Faun to The Wings of the Dove"

-- Kyoko Miyabe (Cambridge University), "Milly Theale and the Two Paintings in The Wings

of the Dove"

-- Tamara L. Selitrina (Bashkir State Pedagogical University), "Henry James: The Painter's

Eyes"